as in pace
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Recent Examples of tempo
The game will be decided by which team can control the tempo of the game.
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
In a game in which the Canadiens generally controlled the tempo and run of play, the Canucks handily won Miller’s minutes both on the scoreboard and territorially.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Part of that is knowing when to linger on a closeup (go back and rewatch the scene leading up to Joanne and Noah’s first kiss) and when to punch up the comedy by increasing the tempo — before interrupting the rhythm to land a joke.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
In come his thoughts on personnel and roster building and tempo and staff hirings and culture and mentality and grit and all the things that make a football team a football team.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
In a game in which the Canadiens generally controlled the tempo and run of play, the Canucks handily won Miller’s minutes both on the scoreboard and territorially.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Part of that is knowing when to linger on a closeup (go back and rewatch the scene leading up to Joanne and Noah’s first kiss) and when to punch up the comedy by increasing the tempo — before interrupting the rhythm to land a joke.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 23 Dec. 2024
In come his thoughts on personnel and roster building and tempo and staff hirings and culture and mentality and grit and all the things that make a football team a football team.
—Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tempo
Noun
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That database could help provide clean data on fibers to companies working to train models to identify mixed fibers, speeding up the pace of the entire recycling process.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Jan. 2025
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Rene Haas, the CEO of the semiconductor company Arm Holdings, said that even this pace of expansion across the industry would put global computing on track to consume more energy than India by 2030.—
Karen Hao,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Around the time the contract began on May 1, 2022, Shanghai-to-Los Angeles average spot rates were $8,564 per 40-foot container, according to Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI).—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
28 Jan. 2025
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Florida, in particular, has some of the highest rates of foreclosure starts and fillings.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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Defensive backs struggled to judge his easy velocity.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
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The lanky righty has steadily gained fastball velocity since the Red Sox drafted him at age 17 in 2021.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Boom Supersonic hit a milestone yesterday when its XB-1 experimental jet passed Mach 1.0, the speed of sound, on its way to Mach 1.122 or 860.87 mph.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
29 Jan. 2025
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The speed and mass of YR4 are subject to change as the asteroid travels through space.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Granted, Butler, at 35, long has played at a slow-and-steady gait.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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What's more, his shuffling gait and verbal miscues had raised questions about his fitness for office.—
Susan Page,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Tempo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tempo. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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